Description of teaching experience My teaching experience can be linked to the categories: academic, practice-based and professional development context. Apart from my teaching and supervising experience within the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense in Brazil, where I taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in a variety of roles including lecturer, supervisor, and examiner since January 2014, I have been a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield Department of Population Health, working with research, supervising students and helping British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention with their daily activities. I have also worked for Enhance Reviews part-time, which is a Systematic review company, providing scientific reports for World Health Organization and Public Health England. Within practice-based and professional development context, I have worked with stretching breaks at workplace, planning and implementing physical activities programs for community health centres, development of evidence-based materials to inform people about health behaviours, assessing physical fitness and planning programs for weight management for …show more content…
I called it ‘Evidence-based practice’. The Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) referred the student Hamish Reid, who had to go through a research training as part of his Academic Clinical Fellow in Sport and Exercise Medicine and he had interest in studying physical activity for rheumatologic autoimmune diseases. This research module aims to enable students to become familiar with research, searching and assessing the best available evidence, writing and submitting a research
In utilizing the instructional strategy, based on the social cognitive theory - lecture, quiz, games, and brain storming, the function shifts to an instructor, teacher, manager, and administrator. The function also shifts to a consultant or resource person to all the other members of the team – the Dietitian/Nutritionist, the Licensed Vocational Nurse, and the Fitness Instructor. The role also involves acting as a communicator, reporter, and advocate for health to the community. In conclusion, the roles are much more and encompasses a wider range, as the health education specialist wears many hats in the bid to reduce incidence of childhood obesity and adult onset of type II diabetes in Vista
I have worked to safeguard children and promote their welfare, which includes protecting them from maltreatment or things that are bad for their health or development; and making sure they grow up in circumstances that allow safe and effective care. I work in partnership with service users to support social integration, empowering them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting health outcomes, resilience, peer support, employment opportunities and self-determination. I am excited at the possibility to develop new skills, undertake more training and willing to take on any new challenge such as urine screening and handling body fluid
Personal Statement At the age of 14, my family and I moved left the comforts of Los Angeles, California to adventurous and unknown Nicaragua. Why Nicaragua? My parents are proud Nicaraguans and moved to the United States for a better life before my birth. I had previously visited the raw and untainted country
Jeff Voss has been teaching health since he arrived to West Delaware. He taught science at Monticello for a year before he moved. It’s not easy being a teacher; for example, “you have to get a teachers degree to be able to teach any subject” (Voss). Also, it’s not only difficult being a teacher it’s hard being a parent as well. Jeff Voss has four children.
The second ECPD session was a presentation with Dr. Levett giving a background about his experience and how he came into the public health field. Dr. Levett has a wonderful passion in him for the public health. A statement he mentions that stayed with me was if you do not have the passion for public health it would not make you happy (this is not the exact statement). I believe Dr. Levett was stating, public health is not an easy career where one gets a job with a high salary, but it is a career where you learn to love what you do. One thing that was very memorable when Dr. Levett spoke was the origin of several public health and scientific terms originated from Greek terminology.
Keeping an open mind and being transparent when doing a literature search is key in producing a comprehensive and meaningful literature review. Discussion 5: 1) Read “How to search evidence” PowerPoint, and 2) discuss at least 5 things what you learned about searching evidence. Five points learned from the Power Point include: 1. Using professional databases such as PubMEd, CINAHL, Cochrane, EBSCO, etc. is essential in finding reliable, current and valid data. 2.
An evidence-based practice in education is a process of using experimentally testing, research, invention, strategies, trial and error research, and replicate experience multi times. The results are published for teachers, administrators, and educators in a peer-review journal. The education community is not always help with evidence base practice results. “No matter how much scientific evidence supports a given a curriculum, program, or teaching method, a teacher should never assume effectiveness” (Dietrich, Kenworth, & States, 2007). If a teacher is not happy with the practice he or she can modify one component and document any changes, or improve the student’s level of learning.
Consulting from a scientific-practitioner perspective is the gathering of information and identifying evidence-based methods of learning in which can further establish singular commonalities which promotes learning from one another. This concept of inclusive education can assist practitioner in identifying which methods are successful and/or failing. These scientific-practitioner models can result in clinical training which focuses on a multitude of perspective which incorporates both scientific and knowledge bases which ensure the best practices have been implemented and evaluated between peers and other members of the professional cohort. Lowman (2012) affirmed that research identifies the phenomenon is more likely to provide knowledge’s
Personal Reflection My final semester at South Dakota State University has been a crazy journey and I gained some very valuable tools during my practicum experience at Head Start. While I was at Head Start, I couldn’t help but compare my experiences to those I had at the campus preschool. As the final section of my portfolio and completion of NAEYC standard 7, I have reflected on the differences and similarities between my two major student teaching experiences.
The Public Health club has a lot of potential beyond what it has already produced. My vision for the club is that we embrace all majors, and make public health applicable to various interests and studies. Public Health is massive field that covers every aspect of our daily lives, and I want others to understand that. In achieving this, I hope to bring about education on various careers that utilize public health that many wouldn’t think do. I hope to encourage that all students no matter what their future goals are to join and learn about public health.
• Be equally prepared in both of your two content areas. It is important that you understand that each experience is invaluable to your personal and professional development and growth as a future teacher. Over the course of fall and spring semesters you will have a field experience in each of your two content areas. At the end of spring semester, you will be asked to declare your primary and secondary area which may change based on these two experiences; • Read the Dress Code and Professional Behavior Expectations documents by reading the SCOE Dress Code for Field Experience Placement, Horry County Schools Dress Guidelines and Standards of Conduct for South Carolina Educators on Moodle. Decide and select appropriate professional attire and
Chronic Disease The report I choose to read on the CDC website was about arthritis, the effects of arthritis and what the public is doing to help the people who are suffering from arthritis, understand the causes of arthritis on the body and what can be done to help aid the body from any shortcomings a person might face because of arthritis. By reading the article on arthritis I found out that many people are effected by arthritis and that arthritis does not only effect elderly people but people of all ages; according to the CDC two thirds of the population that suffer from arthritis are younger then 65, which means that arthritis can effect any person no matter how young they are. The article also helped me realize that while there are many
An epidemiology program offers both course work and practical study which would give me a strong foundation in public health especially disease surveillance and prevention. By having advanced training in the United Kingdom, which is considered as the highest standard in education of public health, I will acquire the skills to help not only my department, but also all health care professionals in the city of Basra to understand the principles of approach to the epidemiological research. My next step in my career becomes an interactive lecturer and public health specialist of epidemiology at Basra College of Medicine, lecturing not only to the medical students and doctors in the city of Basra, but my target is to establish a national website for distance teaching from which Iraqi health care professionals can access lectures on the basic principle in epidemiology and research
I worked as teaching assistant for Human Physiology at UCSD. Dr. Cooke, the instructor of the course, implemented various in-class techniques as part of an education research project. My goal was to improve the students’ performance by utilizing effective teaching methods and keeping track of their progress. As a teacher assistant, I supervised in class discussions and facilitated the process of learning by addressing students’ questions and concerns. I also led a weekly discussion section, held individual office hours, and ran exam review sessions.
I strive to be evidence-based, to create a safe space for learning and to make the educational experience fun. This is true whether teaching formally or informally, and whether my audience consists of undergraduate students, graduate clinicians or patients. My style of teaching is practical, experiential and occasionally humorous, which I believe leads to a collaborative learning process that benefits everyone involved.